By: Kendra Oliver, Ph.D., M.P.S.
A Responsible AI Reality Check: Moving Beyond the Hype
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What if students made their own decisions on AI?
By: Emily Durning
In your everyday life, how do you decide when to pull up ChatGPT to answer your question or help you with a task? This past December, Nora Mattern and I wanted to see how this cohort of RDS Scholars would navigate these decisions through the lens of responsible uses.
Can I use AI tools on this dataset?
By: Naveena Nagaraju (6/30/2025)
Understanding Data Licenses Before Using AI Tools
With many turning to tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini for analysis, writing, or generating data science insights, one concern that people should be thinking about is: “Can I upload this dataset?”
What Pitt Students Are Actually Doing with AI - Key Takeaways from the 2024 SERU Survey
A preliminary report from the 2024 Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) survey offers important insights into how undergraduate students at Pitt are engaging with generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. Rather than fueling hype or fear, the data gives us something more useful: clarity.
Here are the key takeaways:
University students feel ‘anxious, confused and distrustful’ about AI in the classroom and among their peers
What happens when AI moves from tool to classroom tension?
Explore how university students are wrestling with anxiety, confusion, and even distrust, not just toward artificial intelligence itself, but toward classmates and instructors, as generative AI reshapes learning and relationships on campus.
Pitt’s new AI hub aims to make artificial intelligence practical for students and their careers
The University of Pittsburgh’s strategy surrounding artificial intelligence will be practical, supporting students and the workforce, said Michael Colaresi, newly named director of the academic Hub for AI and Data Science Leadership.
GenAI Conversations at Research Fair
By Emily Durning
From left to right: Joanna Wang, Emily Durning, and Ariana Villa
AI Ecosystem Mapping
By Emily Durning
As a senior undergraduate student nearing graduation, it can be jarring to think back to the state of AI, and more specifically Generative AI, my first semester of college. In late 2022, the first version of ChatGPT was gearing up to be released, meaning that while AI was still seeping its way into all walks of life, it had not yet hit the exponential increase of usage and integration that has been seen the past few years.